I appreciate your parents dedication, sacrifice and commitment to their kids...
...I hold the same philosophy and will do everything I possibly can to put them through christian schools...
...my son, Joshua, starts kindergarten this fall and I enrolled him in a local AOG private school...I'll work overtime if necessary....but I WILL NOT send my kids to public school with God's help...
This song entered my mind this weekend while reading a book on the train ride into work. The paragraph I was reading made me remember a song that they had us 6th graders sing (I think for our graduation) at my public elementary school...the lyrics and message never dawned on me until that moment on the train, but I can easily remember the first few lines and the melody of the song (that is how awfully it is indelibly engrained in my mind, though it was a song I had not heard in over 2 decades)...I googled the song and found it just so that I can read the entire message....I was appalled at what they were subliminally instilling in us children.....LORD guard my children from this perverse society...that is one of many reasons why I intend to keep my kids out of the public school system and send them to private christian schools....the message of homosexuality and coming out of the closet can clearly be read between the lines. I am filled with anger, because if I could recall the song 2 decades later, how many of my classmates could do likewise and how many of them use these kind of messages to assuage any particular philosophy they hold that stands against God's holiness...
Lyrics by Jerry Herman
I AM WHAT I AM
I am what I am, I am my own special creation
So come take a look, give me the hook or the ovation
It's my world that I want to have a little pride in
My world and it's not a place I have to hide in
Life's not worth a ........ 'til you can say, hey world
I am what I am
I am what I am, I don't want praise I don't want pity
I bang my own drum, some think it's noise I think it's pretty
And so what if I love each feather and each spangle
Why not try to see things from a different angle
Your life is a sham 'til you can shout out loud
I am what I am
I am what I am and what I am needs no excuses
I deal my own deck sometimes the ace, sometimes the deuces
There's one life and there's no return and no deposit
One life so it's time to open up your closet
Life's not worth a ........ 'til you can say, hey world
I am what I am
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I did further research and discovered that this song was in a broadway musical...Herman wrote the score to La Cage aux Folles, a musical about two middle-aged gay lovers. One of the songs in the show, "I Am What I Am," has become the gay national anthem. The show won six prizes at the 1984 Tony Awards and had a Broadway run of five years.
La Cage aux Folles is a Tony Award-winning musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. Based on the 1973 French play by Jean Poiret and subsequent 1978 French-Italian screen version (one of the most popular foreign films ever released in the United States), the musical focuses on a gay couple
: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his star attraction - and the adventures that ensue when Georges' son brings home his fianc?e's ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
SONG LIST:
Act I
We Are What We Are
A Little More Mascara
With Anne on My Arm
With You on My Arm
The Promenade
Song on the Sand
La Cage aux Folles
I Am What I Am
Act II
Song on the Sand
Masculinity
Look Over There
Cocktail Counterpoint (aka "Dishes")
The Best of Times
Look Over There (Reprise)
The Finale
Albin's Act I finale number, the rousing "I Am What I Am,"
was recorded by Gloria Gaynor and proved to be one of her biggest hits. It also became a rallying cry of the Gay Pride movement
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cage_aux_Folles